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The Full-Time Scandal of Part-Time America

Fewer than half of U.S. adults are working full time. Why? Slow growth and the perverse incentives of ObamaCare.

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Mortimer Zuckerman

July 13, 2014 6:47 p.m. ET

There has been a distinctive odor of hype lately about the national jobs report for June. Most people will have the impression that the 288,000 jobs created last month were full-time. Not so.

The Obama administration and much of the media trumpeting the figure overlooked that the government numbers didn't distinguish between new part-time and full-time jobs. Full-time jobs last month plunged by 523,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. What has increased are part-time jobs. They soared by about 800,000 to more...